When I first got a memory stick big enough to put movies on the first thing I did was try to put a two hour long movie onto it. I was using my Mac so using PSPVideo9 was out of the question. So I figured that using Quicktime Pro to export the movie in the MPEG4 format would work. However, after exporting the video and putting in the correct directory (I know it was the right one because I checked it about 7,962 times...) it showed up as Corrupted Data. I know there is a thumbnail file with the .THM extension(?). But that can't make the file corrupt, can it. I know the music files can have album art but even if there isn't one it just shows a generic number. Please help with that.
And my other question, after my experience with the Mac I tried to do it on my Windows machine. I used PSPVideo9 to transcode the film and got the .THM file, put them both in the correct directory, only this time the movie didn't show up as corrupted it just doesn't play. When I launched the movie I just get a black screen. The menu pops up when I push triangle but the functions don't do anything. I tried the "Jump To" option with no results. And the only way to get back to the PSP main menu is to take the freakin' battery out because the home button does nothing. Please help me!
A few questions about putting videos onto the PSP.
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numchuckskills
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A few questions about putting videos onto the PSP.
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Quicktime Pro 6.x, at least, won't produce compatible movies. I haven't tried Quicktime 7 yet, if anyone has heard it is compatible I would be interested to hear.
I would search on these forums for well established threads on making movies. There are huge amounts of info here, but a few months buried back.
I would search on these forums for well established threads on making movies. There are huge amounts of info here, but a few months buried back.
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FFmpeg is really floating my boat now... That PSPware sucks the big one. I can't get the thing to freakin' work. Anyway, humor me. Why won't Quicktime 6.x produce compatible movies? It exports to MPEG4, and MPEG4 is MPEG4, right?
One more thing, is there a Mac program that produces .thm files?
One more thing, is there a Mac program that produces .thm files?
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Actually, no. MPEG4 is not MPEG4, so to speak.
There are huge variations within the MPEG4 standard, and I believe the PSP specifically focuses on the newer H.264 and 3GPP standards and related codecs with MPEG4. My understanding is that QT6.x wasn't perfectly aligned with the way Sony was doing things, and that was supposed to be fixed in QT7 (which I guess is now confirmed just now by psppet).
I have not chosen to delve into all the ins and outs of video codec standards so I can't give any more than vague details.
I do recall there was alot of discuss about QT and PSP in the apple support forums for Quicktime. You could check there, should be alot of video production monkeys that know everything. :)
There are huge variations within the MPEG4 standard, and I believe the PSP specifically focuses on the newer H.264 and 3GPP standards and related codecs with MPEG4. My understanding is that QT6.x wasn't perfectly aligned with the way Sony was doing things, and that was supposed to be fixed in QT7 (which I guess is now confirmed just now by psppet).
I have not chosen to delve into all the ins and outs of video codec standards so I can't give any more than vague details.
I do recall there was alot of discuss about QT and PSP in the apple support forums for Quicktime. You could check there, should be alot of video production monkeys that know everything. :)
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They're just 160x120 JPEG files, renamed with a THM extension. Create a suitable image in your favourite image editor, then just rename it.numchuckskills wrote:So one last thing for my PSP video needs... Any idea how to create those nifty little .thm files on a mac? I googled all over the place and came out with nothing?
Thanks pals...
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numchuckskills
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That's what I read on another forum but it didn't work. I tried to make a .thm for Napoleon Dynamite. I opened the original picture in Photoshop CS, made the thing 160x120, saved it as a jpeg, renamed it with the matching name as the movie, changed the extension to .thm, placed it in MP_ROOT>100MNV01 with the movie... didn't work. Help...
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Okay, I just nearly threw my PSP at the wall. Remember on the first post of this thread I said that the screen turns black and I can't do a damn thing when I play a movie? Well I thought that using ffmpeg would address that problem. I just finished transcoding a movie with it and the same thing happens? What's going on guys?
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First of all, confirm whether you followed the PSP-specific instructions for using ffmpeg ? Lots of docs on that around...numchuckskills wrote:Okay, I just nearly threw my PSP at the wall. Remember on the first post of this thread I said that the screen turns black and I can't do a damn thing when I play a movie? Well I thought that using ffmpeg would address that problem. I just finished transcoding a movie with it and the same thing happens? What's going on guys?
There's other Mac-specific PSP software than just PSPware, have you considered trying something like iPSP or PocketMac for PSP? It'll probably be a lot easier to use one of those than to use ffmpeg.
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